When he watched the Wild while on the mend, Joel Eriksson Ek didn’t scream at the TV or squirm with nerves. He just sat there. “You can’t really control anything,” he said. “Just try to learn, get the time to maybe just watch different things that you maybe think about in a game.

It took some competitive stamina for us to be able to get it, obviously with the 82nd game and 20 seconds left in the game, but I think it was good. I’m really happy for the guys,”

The Minnesota Wild clinched a spot in the playoffs in dramatic fashion when Joel Eriksson Ek scored the tying goal with 20.9 seconds left in regulation.